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Article: The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Living & Cooking.(Review) (book review)
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- December 22, 1999
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Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol. The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Living & Cooking. Trans. Timonthy J. Tomasik. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P. 1998. xiv + 292 pp.
The fact that this work opens with a string of introductory texts reflects its complex genesis and elaboration: between two volumes, two languages, three main researchers, three consecutive, collaborative research circles, and a twenty-four year time span (from 1974, when the research was commissioned, to 1998 with this appearance of volume two in English).
These complexities are described by the editor, Luce Giard, in History of a Research Project. Although the initial ...